“I WANT NOTHING!”
Gordon Sondland’s testimony today was so bad for Donald Trump, you half expected reporters to find Trump stammering around the White House lawn while clutching a piece of paper that had “I WANT NOTHING! I WANT NOTHING!” written on it with a Sharpie. Sure enough, that’s what ended up actually happening.
Gordon Sondland testified today that after the whistleblower complaint was filed, Trump told him “I want nothing” from Ukraine. Trump obviously said this to try to distance himself from his then-exploding Ukraine extortion scandal. But Trump’s handlers decided to have him step out in front of the media today and pretend that these words somehow exonerated him.
More to the point, Trump is apparently so far gone, his handlers couldn’t trust him to walk a hundred yards and remember to say “I want nothing” to reporters, so they had to write it down for him and hand it to him on a piece of paper. The whole thing was so clunky, several members of the media saw the paper, and realized Trump was in fact reading a prepared speech when he said “I want nothing.”
There are almost no words for how surreal this has all become. Donald Trump has nothing left to cling to now that Gordon Sondland has blown a gaping hole in his presidency. Trump also apparently has too few remaining brain cells to even try to function on a basic level. Trump says he wants nothing, but he has nothing.
